比尔·巴罗 亚特兰大 —— 前美国总统乔·拜登在其白宫回忆录中写道，唐纳德·特朗普既是他的前任也是继任者，其政府决心“拆毁制度、煽动仇恨”，已对国家和世界造成深重损害。
BILL BARROW ATLANTA — Former U.S. President Joe Biden writes in his White House memoir that Donald Trump, at once his predecessor and successor, has deeply damaged the country and world with an administration determined to “tear down institutions and inflame hatreds.”
这位83岁的民主党人表示，80岁的特朗普多年来对他2020年败选以及1月6日国会山袭击事件的谎言，应当“伴随他入土为安”。拜登的这一全面控诉出自《许诺我，美国》一书的首个节选，该节选于周一由《大西洋月刊》刊登。第46任总统的完整回忆录定于11月17日发行。拜登表示，虽然医生对他的癌症治疗反应感到鼓舞，但因健康原因，他推广新书的活动将受到限制。
And the 83-year-old Democrat said the 80-year-old Trump’s years of lies about his 2020 defeat to Biden and the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol should “follow him to his grave.”Biden’s sweeping indictment comes in the first excerpt of “Promise Me, America,” published Monday by The Atlantic. The 46th president’s full memoir is set for a Nov. 17 release. Biden said that while doctors are encouraged by his response to cancer treatment , his activities promoting the book will be limited because of his health.
“唐纳德·特朗普发动了一场叛乱，”拜登在书中写道，指的是特朗普支持者在国会认证民主党人赢得的2020年大选时发动的袭击。“他的目标是在美国选民已将他投票赶下台后继续掌权。
“Donald Trump led an insurrection,” Biden wrote of the attack by Trump supporters as the U.S. Congress met to certify the 2020 election won by the Democrat. “His goal was to remain in power after the American people had voted him out of office.
“暴徒不是‘和平抗议者’，”他写道。“他们带着武器而来，企图阻止对一场合法选举的正式认证。”他斥责特朗普后来赦免了1500多名犯罪者。
“The rioters weren’t ‘peaceful protesters,” he wrote. “They came armed to stop the official certification of a legitimate election.”He chided Trump for later issuing more than 1,500 pardons of the offenders.
“至今，特朗普及其支持者仍摆姿态、做样子，仿佛他们是执法部门的支持者，”拜登写道。“我的看法是：你不能对警察被殴打、被长矛刺伤、被喷射、被残暴对待视而不见，还自称是执法部门的朋友。特朗普在2021年1月6日所做之事永远不应被遗忘。它应当伴随他入土为安。”拜登还哀叹特朗普的政府效率部，以及他对许多拜登政策的激进逆转，尤其是那些旨在应对气候变化的政策。
“To this day, Trump and his supporters continue to preen and posture like they’re supporters of law enforcement,” Biden wrote. “Here’s my view: You don’t get to turn a blind eye to cops being punched, speared, sprayed, and brutalized and call yourself a friend of law enforcement. What Trump did on January 6, 2021, should never be forgotten. It should follow him to his grave.”Biden also laments Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency and his aggressive reversal of many of his policies, especially those intended to address climate change.
“所有总统都必须面对这样一种感觉：他们的历史遗产容易受到政治钟摆效应和继任者心血来潮的影响，”拜登写道。“就我而言，这种感觉因唐纳德·特朗普轻蔑且破坏性的本性而被放大，他似乎无法容忍别人的成就可能值得在其基础上建设，而不是拆毁的想法。”这部回忆录的出版紧随拜登的民主党同僚在中期选举中大败共和党之后，民主党在众议院和参议院获得了惊人广泛的多数席位，并夺回了多个州议会的控制权，全面否定了特朗普的第二个总统任期。
“All presidents must confront a feeling that their legacy is vulnerable to the pendulum of politics and the whims of their successors,” Biden wrote. “In my case, that feeling was magnified by the dismissive and destructive nature of Donald Trump, who seemed unable to tolerate the idea that someone else’s accomplishments might be worth building on rather than tearing down.”The memoir’s release comes on the heels of Biden’s fellow Democrats trouncing Republicans in the midterm elections, securing stunningly broad House and Senate majorities and flipping control of several statehouses in a comprehensive rebuke of Trump’s second presidency.
但特朗普两年前重掌大权本身就是对拜登唯一一个白宫任期的否定，许多选民仍对他的总统任期及其政党持怀疑态度。
But Trump’s return to power two years earlier was itself a rejection of Biden’s one White House term, and many voters still harbor skeptical views of his presidency and his party.
周日，拜登在一篇冗长的社交媒体帖子中推介他的回忆录，称这是他解释其总统任期、“我们面临的挑战、我做出的决定以及我为什么这么做”的最佳方式。在任四年间，拜登应对了COVID-19大流行及其经济后果，并致力于修复特朗普破坏的全球同盟关系。但他面临着关于年龄的广泛担忧，并在2024年6月与特朗普进行了一场灾难性的辩论后放弃了连任竞选。在通胀持续等问题的困扰下，拜登的副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯于当年11月败给了特朗普。
In a lengthy social media post on Sunday, Biden pitched his memoir as the best way he can explain his presidency, “the challenges we faced, the decisions I made and why I made them.”During his four years in office, Biden confronted the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout, and he worked to restore global alliances that Trump frayed. But he faced widespread concerns about his age, and he abandoned his reelection bid after a disastrous June 2024 debate with Trump. Dogged by lingering inflation and other concerns, Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris, lost to Trump that November.
卸任几个月后，拜登宣布他被诊断出患有前列腺癌。他在周日的社交媒体帖子中公开了病情，称他“将无法像我希望的那样进行那么多关于新书的对话”，并敦促人们让这本书为他说话。
Months after leaving office, Biden announced that he’d been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He opened up about his condition in his Sunday social media post, saying he “won’t be able to do as many conversations about my book as I’d hoped” and urging people to let the book speak for him.
拜登表示，他的医生“继续对我的治疗反应感到鼓舞”。但他承认，“有些日子好些，有些日子差些。这没有阻止我。但有时它会让我慢下来。”
Biden said his doctors “continue to be encouraged by how I’ve responded to treatment.”But, he acknowledged, “Some days are better than others. It hasn’t stopped me. But sometimes it slows me down.”In the excerpt, Biden recounts an unusual Oval Office meeting with Trump days after the 2020 election — well before the Jan. 6 riots.
在书中摘录里，拜登回忆了2020年大选后几天，在椭圆形办公室与特朗普举行的一次不同寻常的会面——远在1月6日骚乱之前。
“‘You know, Joe, if it weren’t for politics, I believe we’d be good friends,’” Trump said, according to Biden.
据拜登回忆，特朗普说：“‘你知道，乔，要不是因为政治，我相信我们会成为好朋友。’”拜登补充说，特朗普甚至评论说“他很高兴不用跟我竞选”。
Trump even commented “that he’d been relieved he didn’t have to run against me,” Biden added.
拜登退出连任竞选时的民意调查显示他落后于特朗普，民主党人出于担心他无法获胜而施压让他让步。
Public polling at the time Biden dropped his reelection bid showed him trailing Trump, and Democrats pushed for him to yield out of fear that he could not win.
拜登说，他利用这次会面给特朗普“介绍了一遍世界局势”，包括俄乌战争、北约联盟、以色列和加沙以及中美关系。拜登说，特朗普“关注的是世界领导人的个性”，而不是国际关系的实质内容。
Biden said he used the meeting to give Trump “a tour of the world,” including the Ukraine-Russia war, NATO alliances, Israel and Gaza and China-U.S. relations. Biden said Trump “focused on the personalities” of world leaders rather than the substance of international relations.
他说，那次长达两小时的会面让他担心特朗普确实会拆解他总统任期内的大部分成果。他写道，特朗普上任初期——首日行政命令以及随后的一切——证实了他对一个“更残酷的政府”的担忧，该政府“试图拆毁制度、煽动仇恨”，还有一位“拿着破坏球砸向我们传统”的总统。这本回忆录的标题呼应了拜登早先的一本书《答应我，爸爸》，那本书讲述了他儿子博患癌并去世的经历——这种呼应隐含地承认了这位前总统的年龄、健康状况，以及他可能没有漫长的卸任后时光来见证国家的走向和他遗产的演变。
He said that two-hour meeting left him worried Trump would indeed dismantle much of his presidency. He wrote that Trump’s opening weeks — his Day One executive orders and everything that followed — confirmed his worries about a “crueler government” that “tried to tear down institutions and inflame hatreds” and a president who “took a wrecking ball to our traditions.”The memoir’s title echoes an earlier Biden book, “Promise Me, Dad,” that he wrote about his son Beau’s cancer and death — a parallel that implicitly acknowledges the former president’s age, condition and the reality that he may not have a long post-presidency to see the direction of the country and the evolution of his legacy.
在那本第一本书中，出版于拜登副总统任期结束和2020年总统竞选之间，他解释说书名直接源自2014年感恩节前后的一场父子谈话。
In that first book, released between Biden’s vice presidency and his 2020 presidential bid, he explained that the title came directly from a father-son conversation around Thanksgiving in 2014.
“答应我，爸爸。给我一个承诺，无论发生什么，你都会没事的，”拜登回忆博说。博·拜登六个月后去世。
“Promise me, Dad. Give me your word that no matter what happens, you’re going to be all right,” Biden recalled Beau saying. Beau Biden died six months later.
在周日的帖子中，拜登重申了他在竞选和总统任内常提出的论点，称美国之所以独特，是因为它“建立在一个理念之上”，即“我们人人生而平等”。
In his Sunday post, Biden repeated an argument he made often when campaigning and during his presidency, saying the U.S. is unique because it was “built on an idea” that “all of us are created equal.”
“答应我，美国，”他在结尾写道，“我们永远不会忘记这一点。”
“Promise me, America,” he concluded, that “we’ll never forget it.”